Example sentences of "it is at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the case — and the religious context is a problem that will be considered with wider reference in due course — it is at church that the parish clerk , Absolon , is introduced . |
| 2 | But it is at scrum-half or stand-off that he eventually aims to establish himself . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) How should you study the family when it is at home ? |
| 4 | When asked about the ‘ meaning ’ of his Foundation cycle , he was apt to burst into a song which he had adapted from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera , Patience : ‘ Success is not a mystery , just brush up on your history , and borrow day by day/ Take an Empire that was Roman , and you 'll find it is at home in/ All the starry Milky Way . ’ |
| 5 | What they all tell you is that doing business and controlling credit overseas is much the same as it is at home except that it is more complicated and expensive . |
| 6 | After all , nothing is a joke here , as it is at home with Felicity . |
| 7 | British television is almost as widely admired abroad as it is at home . |
| 8 | Even when it is at rest , silent and apparently non-polluting , the car continues to have environmental impacts . |
| 9 | The interval I between ticks emitted by the source when it is at rest at height r is given by . |
| 10 | It was one of those dreary days when it is as dark at noon as it is at dusk and the onset of the official darkness is as the rolling down of a blind on a day that has never properly existed . |
| 11 | The quality of our vision on a dark night must be far poorer than 5 per cent of what it is at midday . |
| 12 | Even more hammily : ‘ But — and here 's the bad news — our first priority — and I 've got to be blunt and straightforward with you — is to raise the number of students going through higher education to double what it is at present , by 96/97 . ’ |
| 13 | This is potentially a glorious voice — one senses that instinctively — but to my ears it is at present just a voice , an instrument . |
| 14 | But it is at present bidding on a lot of new contracts and chief executive Ken Miller believes defence profits could start to turn up in 1993 . |
| 15 | It is at present very expensive , in the order of $US500-$US 1000 per ha , and low cost methods have not been developed . |
| 16 | that it appears to my Lords that this space of ground , including property in Downing-Street which the Board of Works has the power to appropriate to the purposes of public offices , will be sufficient for any new buildings which it is at present desirable to commence in that locality . |
| 17 | He is right to ask whether SERC as it is at present constituted could decide ruthlessly to cut projects in this area . |
| 18 | I can recall the phrase ‘ being left behind ’ ( whatever it meant ) being used far more frequently than it is at present . |
| 19 | Main picture The view through the medieval solar as it is at present : ‘ It 's pretty primitive ’ |
| 20 | He gave two reasons : over-critical remarks of Hailsham and Macmillan and — the main reason — ‘ It is judged that the showing of the Suez programme could have untoward consequences while the situation in the Arab world is as critical as it is at present . ’ |
| 21 | Welcoming Lenin 's New Economic Policy , he expressed the hope that the development of Anglo-Soviet trade would persuade Russia to ‘ throw away the last shreds of Bolshevism and Communism by which it is at present fettered . ’ |
| 22 | While it is at present impossible to verify the claims , the list reflects the ethnic and religious complexities of the area . |
| 23 | It is at present impossible to make chronological sense of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs : even the most determined visitors eventually lose the thread and are forced to retrace their steps . |
| 24 | We have been arguing that changing concepts is a political activity ; that it is not value-free , but arises out of a particular ethical or political interpretation of the word , and that one of the aims of the dialogue between feminism and philosophy should precisely be to reconceptualise the world that is offered by philosophy as it is at present . |
| 25 | Two academic members of the Layfield Committee have subsequently described this as ‘ just the centralist orthodoxy that should be challenged ’ ( Jones and Stewart 1983b : 100 ) , but it is at present firmly entrenched . |
| 26 | It is at present difficult to say how effectively they controlled the flow of petitions . |
| 27 | Opinion is sharply divided on this issue , but it is at present under consideration by some Deans and Chapters , the Choir Schools ' Association and the Cathedral Organists ' Association . |
| 28 | But in assessing the usefulness of VARBRUL , it is important to note that it is at present neither commercially available nor adequately documented for inexperienced users . |
| 29 | It seems to be a very sensible move by the Ministry of Defence to alter the structure of our forces in the way in which it is at present proceeding . |
| 30 | This of course had to be monitored and accountable a as it is at present in the Southern region where we can already see the benefits . |